A powerful Beast Tamer's Spiritual Power is unquestionably strong. Otherwise, how could they control powerful Pet Beasts?
"Wait for him to surrender his Pet Beast, then humiliate him. Let his anger, frustration, and hatred reach a peak, and that's when we strike."
The leader licked his lips. A crimson tentacle emerged from his mouth, splitting into six segments. Sharp teeth were rooted in each segment, from which protruded marble-sized eyeballs, all casting greedy glances forward. The greater the emotional fluctuations and the more negative emotions involved, the stronger the converted cultists become.
"Understood." The gray-robed man nodded. He raised his right hand, which transformed into a writhing mass of flesh, raw and skinless, all exposed muscle and bone.
Ordinary people at the bottom, if they wanted to be on par with Beast Tamers, found that—aside from the path of a Beast Tamer—there was another road they could take. That is, to join a sect and worship a deity.
「...」
Threatened by an irresistible enemy, Chu Yi glanced at Zhang Heng. His attitude softened as he said helplessly, "QUACK."
Seeing the other party relent, Zhang Heng smiled. He waved his hand, and the Voice-Changing Pig immediately lifted Chu Yi's Voice-Changing Curse. His opponent was a third-year student at Star Dragon Academy and had once been part of the Starfire Sequence, so Zhang Heng could only take a soft approach. The soft-knife approach is the most agonizing.
"So, shouldn't you return my Pet Beast now?"
Bika cowered by Chu Yi's pant leg, staring at Zhang Heng and baring its teeth with a hostile glare.
Chu Yi took a deep breath, grabbed the Fire Bird's neck, and squeezed harder. "You bastard, you're dead %&#@%￥... QUACK QUACK!"
Fire Bird: (x﹏x) Someone took your Pet Beast, why are you taking it out on me? Ouch...
"Ungrateful cur." Zhang Heng's face darkened. He waved his hand, and a contractual array formed. The Pet Beast had yet to appear, but a powerful aura erupted from the array, like a tiger escaping its cage, ready to tear everything apart.
"AWOOO!"
Under the pitch-black, ink-like night sky, pale moonlight illuminated a magnificent giant wolf. It stood six meters tall, fierce in appearance, and rose upright.
"Moon Worship Wolf King!" Chu Yi spared it a glance. This was a War General-level Pet Beast, possessing formidable combat power. His opponent was a Silver-rank Beast Tamer and possessed more than one Pet Beast.
Silver! Every Silver-rank individual in the Beast Taming World is a pillar of strength, representing the high-level power of a faction.
"However," Chu Yi stared at Zhang Heng. A trace of demonic purple light flashed in his eyes as Runes sketched themselves out, weaving into a gorgeous and splendid nebula. "I'm waiting for an awakening. What are you waiting for?"
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Under everyone's astonished gazes, he slowly raised his left hand, and the Star Track Mark appeared. As the seal broke, thousands of Fireflies streamed out. The surrounding airflow grew turbulent, visibly transforming into White Dragons that coiled up from beneath Chu Yi's feet.
The observing Beast Tamers looked bewildered. This kid just raised his hand as if to surrender, yet he's causing such a huge commotion? A second Pet Beast?
Zhang Heng's gaze turned cold. Having previously dealt with the Fiery Firebird, he had suspected Chu Yi had another Pet Beast hidden.
"A mere deceptive trick..." Zhang Heng said coldly, but his pupils constricted. For behind Chu Yi stood a towering shadow draped in a black robe. The form beneath the robe was grotesquely bloated and floated slowly.
"What is this?"
A Demon-type Pet Beast? How can it possess such a powerful aura?!
No, that's not it! He's a follower of the Evil God Sect! A madman!
Whispers seemed to surround them. Everyone felt as if they had suffered a wave of spiritual contamination. Even their Beast Taming Spaces began to mutate; the Pet Beasts residing within grew frenzied, crazed, and distorted.
The nearby Fire Bird trembled uncontrollably. Directly confronting a majestic presence writhing in the darkness—even just a wisp of its shadow—was too much. Unable to process the incomprehensible information, the Fire Bird was driven insane. Blood flowed from its eyes, ears, and nose as it suffocated to death.
「...」
"Leader, this..." The gray-robed man was dumbfounded, instinctively looking at his right hand. The hand of flesh and blood, which had slaughtered countless Beast Tamers, trembled instinctively.
He looked at the leader. After the initial daze, a mixture of wonder, shock, and fear washed over the leader, finally settling into a look of pure worship.
"I feel the presence of the Lord!" He trembled with excitement. His bizarre tongue retracted, and as his cranium seemed to split open, thick blood, carrying an unstoppable excitement, flowed out. "Lord! Almighty Lord!"
「...」
"Die!" Chu Yi fixed his gaze on Zhang Heng, unleashing [Ghost Slash] and targeting the strongest first.
An eye, the color of the crimson moon, emerged from the head of the slowly writhing fiendish shadow. It twisted space, dragging Zhang Heng before it, forcing him to kneel less than a meter away.
Zhang Heng: "!!!"
The ghostly entity raised its hand, and an indescribable power coalesced into a scythe. This was a manifested symbol of death, executing judgment under the Power of Rules.
"Spare me! I was wrong! I had no idea you were the venerable harbinger of the Great One, the devout supplicant of the Divine Master, the sage who roams the starry sky, the pervasive long night..." Zhang Heng frantically begged for mercy, kneeling and kowtowing, a string of sectarian terms spilling from his mouth. His pure white Spiritual Energy felt completely shackled, rendering him unable to mobilize even a sliver of it.
Seeing his master instantly suppressed, the Moon Worship Wolf King grew restless and was about to attack, but Zhang Heng stopped it with a single thought. He had never imagined it. His opponent was no mere Beast Tamer but an Evil God Cultist disguised in human skin, whose strength was far greater than it appeared on the surface.
"Leader!" everyone exclaimed, wanting to rush forward and help, but none dared. They watched in despair, a shiver running through their very souls as they looked upon the handsome youth beneath the descending shadow.
The situation had dramatically reversed. The young man, who had seemed to be at an absolute disadvantage, had turned out to be a man-eating tiger, ready to devour the jackals whole!
However, Chu Yi stood high above, looking down at the kowtowing Zhang Heng. His cold, handsome face twitched slightly.
Slash! Damn it, slash him! Are you going to cut him or not?! Do you even know how?!
He glanced at the looming scythe. Chu Yi was internally berating the summoned ghostly shadow. He felt apprehensive; this [Ghost Slash] involved a judgment.
[Ghost Slash]: Summons a ghostly shadow to perform a judgment at the cost of an increased Erosion Degree. If the judgment is successful, it triggers an instant-kill effect.
[Current Erosion Degree]: 2%
In other words, if the judgment failed, nothing would happen. All that spectacle, and what if nothing happens?
Fortunately, during the judgment period, the target would be immobilized, completely at his mercy.
At this moment, Chu Yi immediately checked the abilities of his [Demon Eye Penetration]. This was why he had waited for his second Deceit Beast to complete its evolution—for this very moment.
[Deceit Beast]: Demon Eye Penetration
[Rank]: High Servant
[Level]: 9
[Property]: Spiritual
[Weakness]: Divine
[Skill]: hypnosis
[Special Skill]: Awaiting Slaughter
[Status]: Beyond Excited
[Evolution Point]: 1